Parenteses Quotes

#1. No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

Ali Khamenei

#2. It's like she's made of steel, yet the most lovely, beautiful steel ever crafted. There's something always lingering just beneath the surface when you look at her - a sense of mystery and sex, of all the weapons one can use to be a truly compelling woman.

Michael Callahan

#3. There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. I'm not going to be able to sleep a wink tonight.
I hate shelters.
People coughing and snoring and hacking up who-knows-what.
It's a nightmare.
But I do have clean teeth.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#5. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.

George Orwell

#6. Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.

Leif Enger

#7. The first version of everything is janky,

Alexis Ohanian

#8. He who controls the minds of others is a 'Gnani' (the enlightened one). Only when your mind is completely under your control, can other's mind come under your control. How can the other persons mind come under your control when one has disturbances himself.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.

Nick Hornby

#10. Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams.

W. Arthur Porter

#11. When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

Kurt Lewin